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Tim Wilson grills NAB on super ownership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
Liberal MP Tim Wilson has grilled National Australia Bank chief executive Ross McEwan on whether super funds have undue influence over Australian banks, as funds own larger portions of the ASX. Wilson asked NAB whether super funds, as shareholders ...

Gauging the Future Fund's MySuper potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... industry as a "closed cartel" with high fees and low competition. He proposed the Future Fund become the default option for workers, while others looked at the fund's historic returns and made claims of it outperforming MySuper. "The Future Fund is a ...

Time to weed out dud funds: Delaney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... its measurement of performance. However, he made it clear that funds with poor performance are not serving members and workers should be moved to funds that make the most of their retirement savings. "There's a lot to like about the thinking behind ...

Wayne Swan to chair Cbus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... build on the historic strength of their fund. It is because of the advocacy, agitation and sacrifice of building industry workers that Australia now has a $3.3 trillion pool of national savings." He added that as Australia recovers from the COVID-19 ...

Zurich introduces gender affirmation leave

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Zurich Australia and New Zealand has strengthened its support for LGBTQ+ workers by introducing gender affirmation leave. Zurich's new gender affirmation policy provides transgender and gender diverse team members access to assistance if they choose ...

Cbus changes insurance premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... decrease for others." The fund is also improving its income protection offering, including extending cover to blue collar workers in its manual and electech categories. It's also now offering cover to miners who don't work with explosives, air traffic ...

ASX 100 missing key reporting metric: ACCR

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... impacts on company performance and shareholder value. If companies are relying on a large proportion of 'indirect' workers to operate, then information about these workers should be included in annual reporting," ACCR director of workers rights ...

Actuaries Institute releases retirement policy review

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... Review's view of current SG rate being sufficient for most Australians and any increases depressing wages. The paper says workers who permanently retire from the workforce should have access to superannuation from 60 years old. It also wants indigenous ...

Bragg renews calls for Future Fund to manage super

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... wealth fund to manage all superannuation unless a worker opts out. The 20-page widely spaced paper titled Competition for Workers' Superannuation characterises the current superannuation system as a "closed cartel" with high fees, low competition, and ...

World Pension Alliance condemns COVID early release

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... retirement security those funds are intended to provide," Scheerlinck said. "This will only aggravate the situation of these workers in their old age, since they will suffer from greater financial fragility at the time of retirement." According to WPA ...